Dataset Hospital Mental Health Database (HMHDB)

Name:

Hospital Mental Health Database (HMHDB)

Data Provider (source):

Canadian Institute for Health Information

Description:

The Hospital Mental Health Database (HMHDB) contains data from all provinces and territories in Canada on hospitalizations for mental illness and addiction. HMHDB data is gathered from administrative separation records of psychiatric and general hospitals from 4 sources:

Hospital Mental Health Survey (HMHS): Separation records from selected psychiatric hospitals that do not report to the DAD

Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS): Separation records for individuals admitted as inpatients to adult mental health services in Ontario as well as some individuals in youth inpatient beds and selected facilities in other provinces

to deliver comparable and actionable information to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across the continuum of care

Type of Data (select all that apply):

Health Care and Health Services

Data Collection Method (select all that apply):

Individual Level Data, Administrative Data

Scope:

Canada-wide

Identifiers used for linkage:

Personal Health Number, Date of birth

Access requiredments and conditions for Researchers and Projects:

Data Access Conditions:

In addition to the CIHI data access condition below, requests for Quebec data are subject to review and authorization from the Quebec Privacy Commission (Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec) and the Québec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS).

CIHI discloses health information and analyses on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians in a manner consistent with its mandate and core functions. These disclosures typically fall into one of four categories:

Disclosures to parties with responsibility for the planning and management of the health care system to enable them to fulfill those functions;

Disclosures to parties with a decision-making role regarding health care system policy to facilitate their work;

Disclosures to parties with responsibility for population health research and/or analysis; and

Prior to disclosure, CIHI reviews the requests to ensure that the disclosures are consistent with the above and meet the requirements of applicable legislation.

CIHI data disclosures are made at the highest degree of anonymity possible while still meeting the research and/or analytical purposes. This means that, whenever possible, data are aggregated.

Where aggregate data are not sufficiently detailed for the research and/or analytical purposes, data that have been de-identified using various de-identification processes may be disclosed to the recipient on a case-by-case basis and where the recipient has entered into a data protection agreement or other legally binding instrument with CIHI.

Only those data elements necessary to meet the identified research or analytical purposes may be disclosed.

Requires the recipient to comply with any other provision that CIHI deems necessary to further safeguard the data.

Prior to the disclosure of de-identified data for research purposes, the requester will provide CIHI with evidence of Research Ethics Board approval.

CIHI reserves the right to impose any other requirement(s) as needed on a case-by-case basis in order to maintain the confidentiality of de-identified data.

Prior to disclosure, program areas will evaluate the de-identified data to assess and subsequently minimize privacy risks of re-identification and residual disclosure, and to implement the necessary mitigating measures to manage residual risks.

CIHI will not disclose de-identified data if it is reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances that it could be utilized, either alone or with other information, to identify an individual and that, where it is reasonably foreseeable that it could be used to identify an individual, the information will be treated as personal health information.